My biggest takeaway from kelly 🌸's design workshop is how quickly and systematically you can turn a C- design into an A- one, even as a non-designer

Insanely talented mentors, detailed personalized feedback, inspired a ton of confidence

Super high ROI event, highly recommend!

Feel like not enough people are talking about how Chipotle is an $88B company that added a whole Cloudflare's worth of market cap YTD (+$26B, +42%!)

Peru went from producing 0 blueberries in 2009, to the #2 producer and #1 exporter 10 years later

With some agricultural + logistical innovations and gov't support, they went from 'it's impossible to grow here' to a $1B+ industry

All started with one entrepreneur, Carlos Gereda

Sobering stats from the 2023 Daily Bread Food Bank report:

1. *Every* food insecurity indicator worsened
2. 122k people used food banks for the first time, 40% more than the COVID influx
3. 60% have post-secondary education, 30%+ have employment income
4. 2.5M visits, +51% YoY

…should I do it

shoutout to Andrei and all the awesome speakers for hosting such a great event last night cohere

easily the most interesting conversations I've had at an event in a long time

(and s/o to whoever ordered that GF pizza, never seen that at a meetup before, much appreciated!)

another W for canadian healthcare:

my mom just broke her hip and got diagnosed with severe osteoporosis

after 2 hours of research, it's clear to me she's been at *extremely* high risk for 9 years

but unless you're 65+, we don't test bone density

absolute negligence

ten years later, still one of the most memorable 2x2s

no one:

chamath: deep inside the bowels of these companies

.New Demos ratatouille
🤝
anyone can cook

the most unexpectedly impressive thing about Socratica symposium was the attention to detail

- beautifully designed slides, tickets, even wristbands
- attendee matching site - graph.socratica.info
- lighting, camerawork, music selection

every aspect beautifully executed

OH in Toronto:

'waterloo engineer' is the new 'kentucky guard'

Grandma told me to work on technology to help seniors. I asked her what ideas she had, and she said:

'I don't know honestly...maybe we need to build artificial general intelligence and ask it to solve the problem.'

1. AgeTech is hard
2. Didn't realize Grandma follows Sam Altman on X

is it changing?

10 years ago, Snarky Puppy dropped one of the greatest drum performances of all time

Larnell Lewis, the drummer:
- got called up 2 days before
- learned the album on a red-eye from Toronto to the Netherlands, practicing in his head
- rehearsed IRL *once*

youtu.be/fuhHU_BZXSk?si…

beautifully said, and reminds me of the John Collison line — 'The world is a museum of passion projects'

the beauty of any museum is hidden in plain sight, behind details we don't notice

creation brings it all into focus, and makes ordinary life wondrous

x.com/collision/stat…

shoutout to internetVin and tommy for hosting New Demos 1 last night

hands down the most energizing tech event in toronto i've ever been to